{"id":4733,"date":"2020-03-19T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2020\/03\/19\/dearcoronavirus-a-message-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:19:51","slug":"dearcoronavirus-a-message-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/dearcoronavirus-a-message-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"#dearcoronavirus \u2013 a message of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>19 March 2020 | St Albans, UK [<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lives are disrupted, damaged or lost. Economies devastated; plans destroyed. The pandemic of 2020 will never be forgotten. But what if, in the midst of fear and anxiety, the Church provides a message of hope.<\/p>\n<p>The GA<em>i<\/em>N Europe network is providing exactly that: Hope. In an innovative social media experiment generated in just a few days, participants from over 40 countries worldwide have recorded a letter entitled #dearcoronavirus. It is a challenge. It is a message. It represents solidarity. It highlights the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>#dearcoronavirus is now spreading across social media platforms in many languages. Join this positive virus by liking and sharing, bringing hope to people across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#dearcoronavirus 01 - A letter from around the world\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JgsJ-y48cLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>#dearcoronavirus is a network project coordinated by the Inter-European and Trans-European Division communication departments in cooperation with Hope Media, Germany.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Victor Hulbert, editor; Deana Stojkovi\u0107, associate editor<br \/>119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:tednews@ted.adventist.org\">tednews@ted.adventist.org<\/a><br \/>Website: www.ted.adventist.org<br \/><em>ted<\/em>NEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division. Readers are free to republish or share this article with appropriate credit including an active hyperlink to the original article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 March 2020 | St Albans, UK [<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lives are disrupted, damaged or lost. Economies devastated; plans destroyed. The pandemic of 2020 will never be forgotten. But what if, in the midst of fear and anxiety, the Church provides a message of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1588,7,1577],"tags":[497,496,472,495],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ireland-united-kingdom","category-news","category-organisational-updates","tag-dearcoronavirus","tag-corona-virus","tag-covid-19","tag-message-of-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}